bachelor's degree
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business administration with an emphasis in accounting

Sandy Rotella, assistant superintendent of business services, left March 28 to return to Colorado to continue her career.She announced her resignation March 13 in a memo to district officials.

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In June, during the school district's budget process, the South Kitsap Education Agency issued a statement that teachers in the district voted no confidence in Rotella and expressed concerned about teacher layoffs and class sizes.

Rotella joined the district in July 2011 after serving six years as assistant superintendent of finance and operations for the Adams County School District 50 in Westminster, Colo.

Rotella, 47, who earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting in 1988 from Colorado State University, was a certified public accountant in Colorado, before joining the Thompson School District as executive director of finance in Loveland in 1994.She moved on to Westminster in 2005.

"There were many mistakes ... some of which took place over a multiyear period," said Sandy Rotella, chief financial officer for the Thompson School District in Loveland."The accountability written into this bill would not have caught or eliminated all of the issues in St. Vrain."

The Senate Education Committee postponed voting on Senate Bill 149 until next week because a Republican lawmaker on the committee was absent Thursday.